Now it seems the last time we lined up under center, we were fortunate to avoid disaster when the snap went completely out of Ewers's control. An alert RB saved the day.
Modulo that, and knowing our starting center was hurt, I'm wondering if our two DTs lined up as blockers would have been better used running that stupid "tush push" play. Have Savion Red take the snap under center, and just let Barryn Sorrell and T'Vondre Sweat stuff the whole business into the endzone?
FTR: I think that play should be somehow written out of the rules. It isn't really stoppable.
Ah, but you see, LSU @ Missouri has shown this not to be the case.
The Bush-push can, in fact, be overcome by blind zebras.
For example, LSU lines up at the 1, QB takes the snap, the line surges, he dives, and two backs start pushing, thinking they will ensure the matter. Before any reasonable definition of forward progress was stopped, the entire team was in the endzone, including over 2/3 of the QBs body and a good bit of the trailing backs doing the pushing.
And somehow, they were ruled short. And no, his knee, elbow, wrist, whatever, never hit the ground.
There were a number of comically obvious missed calls for both teams in that game which prove that entire crew was legally blind--I think the worst I've ever seen--but this is just to say that play
can be stopped. What physical limitations prohibit, incompetence can offset.
On the plus side, it did allow RG3 plenty of opportunity to zing his crazy one-liners, which most people either love or love to hate.
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